Every final score posted during the 1936 Major League Baseball season, tabulated by winning-team runs and losing-team runs.
Baseball games end with a final score, like 8–6. The number across the top is how many runs the winning team scored; the number down the side is how many runs the losing team scored. Where a column and row meet, that square shows how many 1936 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1936 season produced 1,244 games between 16 clubs, running from April 14, 1936 to October 6, 1936. Those games ended in 143 different final scores, 42 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 5–4, posted 62 times — 5.0% of the season's games. The season also produced ten tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 10.38 runs per game in 1936, 1.59 runs above the 1901-onward average of 8.79. That is the 2nd-highest scoring rate among the 125 seasons since 1901. Shutouts accounted for 122 games (9.8% of the total), and 345 of the 1,234 decided games were settled by a single run (28.0%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on July 18, 1936, when the Chicago White Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 21–14 — 35 combined runs. The widest margin was 23 runs: the New York Yankees over the Philadelphia Athletics 25–2 on May 24, 1936.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1936. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season belongs to the live-ball era that followed the 1920 rule changes, when scoring rose sharply and stayed high.